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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt

at columbia this week now calling on university president minouche shafik to resign. tonight the white house weighing in, saying in part, "while every american has the right to peaceful protest, calls for violence and physical intimidation targeting jewish students and the jewish community are blatantly anti-semitic, unconscionable, and dangerous, and have absolutely no place on any college campus or anywhere in the united states of america." last week, an unauthorized encampment on campus led to more than 100 arrests. >> i was one of the students arrested, suspended by the university. all of these students know the risk. >> reporter: tonight, an escalating conflict growing more contentious on campus. george solis, nbc news. in washington, a high wire political act tonight for the house speaker, facing down an intensifying push by some in his party to kick him out of leadership. all of it fallout for his support of this weekend's vote to help ukraine to the tune of $60 billion. julie tsirkin is on capitol hill. >> reporter: tonight, growing pressure on house speaker mike johnson, facing a

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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt

tomorrow, right? >> reporter: yeah, hallie, that's right. we're hoping for answers, as you know, to a number of looming questions, including the name of the driver. meanwhile, today we went to that tavern the sheriff mentioned, and staff there say authorities have already searched it as part of their investigation. hallie. >> maggie vespa live for us there in michigan, thank you. an alarming new warning tonight for jewish students at new york's columbia university. "go home." that's from a rabbi who works on campus, concerned about growing anti-semitism and growing protests against israel's war with hamas. george solis reports. >> reporter: as tensions and pro-palestinian demonstrations at columbia university in new york grow, tonight a jewish leader at the university is now urging students to stay away over what's being described as extreme anti-semitism on campus. >> i really do believe that these protests have lost the plot so to speak and have really just turned into incitement of

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NBC Nightly News With Lester Holt

violence and jew hatred. >> reporter: new york mayor eric adams condemning video such as this, which he saysa shows a young woman with a sign pointing to jewish students saying, "al qassam's next targets." in a letter obtained by nbc news, columbia rabbi elie buechler writing to students, "it deeply pains me to say that i would strongly recommend you return home as soon as possible and remain home until the reality in and around campus has dramatically improved," going on to say, "no one should have to endure this level of hatred, let alone at school." nick baum says while many of his peers have left, he's chosen to stay. >> your reaction to the letter? >> i feel disturbed, but i feel it is completely indicative of the horrible disturbances that jews on campus have been feeling over the last few days. as a jew, i no longer feel welcome on campus. >> reporter: a columbia university spokesperson tells nbc news in part, "we are acting on concerns we are hearing from our jewish students." republican congresswoman elise stefanik, who played a role during a hearing on anti-semitism this n the

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Americas Newsroom

roommate, her best friend. right after october 7th her roommate started speaking anti-palestinian -- pro-palestinian statements to her and it destroyed their friendship. she moved out of her dorm and now she lives with her grandmother on the upper east side because she doesn't feel safe on campus. it is terrifying. >> dana: incredible moment and story. we'll continue to bring all of it to you. [chanting and shouting] >> martha: anti-israel protests -- she said he was stabbed in the eye at yale. the school allowed anti-israel students to run rough shed over their most basic policies. yesterday i paid a price for their inaction. yale student needed hospital treatment for that injury and doing well now, which we're

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The Faulkner Focus

street. so if there is a crime in progress, if someone is in danger we'll go in. we'll keep people safe. if someone for example is being attacked, we will go in to columbia university as we would to a private home to help protect that person. but absent some ongoing crime, we cannot just go on the columbia campus as we see fit. it is up to the university to decide whether or not they want us on campus. as a general matter, columbia university, this goes back many years, does not want nypd present on campus. that's their decision. last week on thursday they informed us they had students who were trespassing. they asked us to come onto campus and take action and we

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CNN This Morning

what i agree with if i had my child at columbia, i also would tell them to go home and by the way, it's not just because of the tension on campus, it's also because those protests have invited he did extremists outside who are yes, they are locked outside, but columbia's campus is not only one main campus you have the majority of the students live around. and so imagine walking by protestors saying, we are hamas, who they're calling for intifada. they don't even understand half the time would intifada means but the other half do. and so that's why if i had a student walking around with a yarmulke, it would not i would not feel comfortable for them. i would tell them, please be careful, please maybe stay home. so i think that while i would say the same thing, i think i just i don't like the decision i would have rather seen something that pushed back on the protesters and what their messages are all right. >> hi garcia, molly, for us this morning, hagar. thanks very much for being here. i appreciate it all right. >> time now for sports, the

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CNN This Morning

rabbi linked to the ivy league school is urgent. >> jewish students to stay home as tense confrontations with pro-palestinian protesters flare on campus. the atmosphere is so charged charged that columbia officials announced that all of today's classes will be held virtually. cnn's shimon prokupecz talked to several students on the new york city campus yesterday particularly the last few days i've uncomfortable around this university i've felt lie this is not a welcoming environment as far as like walking around on campus, i will say i still feel safe. i don't want that to be like any kind of excuse for these people. they've made the campus hostile feeling. >> you're supposed to graduate& a month visit here so you don't you don't take you go. >> i don't think it's safe jimmy now to discuss a garcia molly, former spokesperson for the us mission to the united nations, host of oh, my world on youtube. hagar, thanks very

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CNN This Morning

from the democrats perspective this gives them an opportunity to make coalitions when they need to on a central votes. i don't think it's a matter of them thinking, hey, mike johnson's a great guy in a great leader. we'd like to see them be speaker forever. they want to beat him in november but they want someone who they can come together and make votes on the central issues through the end of the year, right? well, otherwise there's there's just no there's nothing here. are we here are your talon. thank you very much. i really appreciate it all right. >> coming up next to crisis on the campus of columbia university, a rabbi telling jewish students to stay safe, by staying home plus the nba playoffs in full swing bleach report up next higher shipping rais may be the cost of doing business. >> but at what cost turns shipping to your advantage with low cost ground shipping from the united states postal service i'm getting vaccinated

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CNN This Morning

much for being here. you are a columbia university graduate. what is your reaction to the tension on campus? right now? and these just really stunning and disturbing videos that have come out over the weekend thanks so much, casey, and thanks for covering this. >> i'm not only a graduate, i'm a current adjunct professor at the school of international public affairs at columbia. and i saw the protests with my very own eyes. and i was horrified. i saw them over the weekend. i was there on thursday. it was when when when the students were in camps and intense and were arrested after that. and i'm completely horrified for multiple reasons. but most importantly, because while i was there, i saw as i was walking around and as one of the students said i didn't feel on campus, didn't feel unsafe. but but the environment is incredibly hostile and i'll give you an example of that i walked by two posters. i nearly stopped breathing. two pro two posters of terrorists of known

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Your World With Neil Cavuto

by the way we did reach out to the yale university president for an interview and -- and have not yet heard back. thank you for joining us today. please do weigh and now and he is growing protest that are happening all over the country but in new york city we been watching columbia university, to the north of your obviously what's happening in new haven, and now nyu campus we've got these live pictures of of a growing number of students protesting. what has this moment been like for you and what have you personally experienced on-campus? >> absolutely pure microsoft thank you so much of her having me and two other jews out there, happy kosher passover. as i mentioned, you know, it's truly terrifying. at -- as a jewish student at yale for the first time i feel like i'm just not welcome and that has been made abundantly clear to me and my peers, by these kind of actions. as we traversed campus we are

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